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Hot meals are distributed to people who have fled their homes in Gaza. — courtesy WFP/Ali Jadallah
‘Desperate, hungry, terrified’: Gazans stopping aid trucks in search of food
GAZA — Some Gazans are so desperate for food that they are now stopping aid trucks and immediately eating what they find, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Thursday.Briefing journalists in Geneva uon his return from Rafah governorate, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, explained that people were “desperate, hungry and are terrified”, 69 days since the Israeli military bombardment began in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in southern Israel.Hunger is something Gazans have “never, ever experienced” in their troubled history, the veteran UN humanitarian continued.“I saw it with my eyes that people in Rafah have started to decide to help themselves directly from the truck out of total despair and eat what they have taken out of...
December 14, 2023

‘Desperate, hungry, terrified’: Gazans stopping aid trucks in search of food

Displaced people walk from the north of Gaza towards the south, as ambulances head in the other direction. (file). — courtesy UNRWA/Ashraf Amra
Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians
GAZA — Heavy rains created new misery in Gaza as UN humanitarians repeated deep concerns on Thursday over the deteriorating health situation in the Strip, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment and fighting with Palestinian armed groups.UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said that many areas in the enclave have been flooded, “worsening the struggle of displaced Palestinians”, while UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was due to brief journalists in Geneva on the situation on Thursday, following his most recent visit to Gaza.Almost 1.9 million people in the enclave have been uprooted by the violence and more than half have sought safety in the southern town of Rafah. UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) shelters in the south of the Strip are nine times over capacity and scores of...
December 14, 2023

Gaza flooding latest disaster to hit desperate Palestinians

Amir, 20 months old, is too young to understand he's now an orphan
Looking into the eyes of an orphan in Gaza
RAFAH — Twenty-month-old Amir Taha lies silently on the bed – his fluffy hair sticking up, his baby soft skin violated by a raw, jagged wound across his forehead. Purple bruises swell around one of his big brown eyes.He’s an orphan now, his aunt says, with his parents and two of his siblings killed in an Israeli strike – one attack in the devastating war on Hamas in Gaza that Israel launched after militants carried out murderous cross-border raids targeting Israeli civilians on October 7.Amir’s loss adds to the overwhelming human toll in the tiny territory of Gaza where more than 18,000 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.But he does not know that yet, his aunt Nehaia Al-Qadra told CNN. He is too young to understand.“They found Amir in...
December 14, 2023

Looking into the eyes of an orphan in Gaza

Israel's Mossad Director David Barnea speaks in the central coastal Israeli city of Herzliya on September 10, 2023
Israel cancels Mossad chief’s Qatar trip to restart hostage talks
TEL AVIV — Israel has canceled a planned trip to Qatar by the head of its foreign intelligence service to restart talks on a possible second hostage release deal, a source familiar with the negotiations confirmed to CNN.Mossad director David Barnea will not travel to the Qatari capital Doha, where previous talks on the release of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza have taken place, the source said.Israel’s Channel 13 first reported Wednesday that the Israeli war cabinet, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had called off the trip and that senior Israeli officials would not go to Qatar to restart negotiations.CNN has reached out to the Prime Minister’s Office about Barnea’s canceled trip. The Mossad answers directly to the Prime Minister.Around 240 people, from infants...
December 14, 2023

Israel cancels Mossad chief’s Qatar trip to restart hostage talks

An aerial view of a destroyed residential area as Palestinians try to collect usable items under the rubbles of a building, demolished following the Israeli attacks, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on December 12
US intelligence: Nearly half of Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are ‘dumb bombs’ 
WASHINGTON — Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment.The assessment, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and described to CNN by three sources who have seen it, says that about 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions Israel has used have been unguided. The rest have been precision-guided munitions, the assessment says.Unguided munitions are typically less precise and can pose a greater threat to civilians, especially in such a densely populated area like Gaza. The rate at which Israel is using the dumb bombs may be contributing to the soaring civilian death toll.On Tuesday, President...
December 14, 2023

US intelligence: Nearly half of Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are ‘dumb bombs’ 

Israeli soldiers prepare to enter the Gaza Strip, at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Wednesday,
Nine of Netanyahu's soldiers killed in Gaza City ambush
TEL AVIV — Israeli troops are still locked in heavy combat with Hamas fighters in and around Gaza City, more than six weeks after invading the territory's north.Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine in an urban ambush, the military said Wednesday, a sign of the stiff resistance Hamas still poses despite more than two months of devastating bombardment.The ambush in a dense neighbourhood came after repeated recent claims by the Israeli military that it had broken Hamas’ command structure in northern Gaza, encircled remaining pockets of fighters, killed thousands of militants and detained hundreds more.The tenacious fighting underscores how far Israel appears to be from its aim of...
December 14, 2023

Nine of Netanyahu's soldiers killed in Gaza City ambush

An interior view of tge destroyed infant intensive care unit of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza on November 19, 2023
Gaza healthcare workers ‘taken’ by Israeli forces amid ‘horrendous conditions’ at hospitals
GAZA — A senior doctor in northern Gaza says that dozens of medical staffers at his hospital have been taken to an undisclosed location by the Israeli military, as the enclave’s wider healthcare system teeters on the edge of collapse.Dr. Hossam Abu-Safia, head of pediatrics at Kamal Adwan Hospital, told CNN in a phone interview that the area where the facility is located saw particularly heaving bombing on Tuesday followed by the arrival of Israeli troops, describing the situation as “very dangerous.”The troops told all men between the ages of 16 and 65 to leave the building to be searched, he said.More than 70 medical staff were “arrested and taken to an unknown area,” according to Abu-Safia, including hospital director, Dr. Ahmed Al-Kahlot. His claim was echoed in a statement...
December 13, 2023

Gaza healthcare workers ‘taken’ by Israeli forces amid ‘horrendous conditions’ at hospitals

The results of a draft resolution vote are seen on a screen as the UN General Assembly holds an emergency special session on the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations headquarters in New York on December 12, 2023
UN General Assembly votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly has voted to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in war-torn Gaza, in a rebuke to the United States which has repeatedly blocked ceasefire calls in the UN’s Security Council. A majority of 153 nations voted for the ceasefire resolution in the General Assembly’s emergency special session Tuesday, while 10 voted against and 23 abstained. While a General Assembly vote is politically significant and seen as wielding moral weight, it is nonbinding, unlike a Security Council resolution. The US last week vetoed a ceasefire resolution in the smaller Security Council, which had been approved by a majority of the powerful 15-member body. Tuesday’s brief resolution calls for a ceasefire, for all parties to comply with...
December 13, 2023

UN General Assembly votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Israeli soldiers wave from a tank near the border between Gaza and southern Israel on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023
Biden says Israel losing support over 'indiscriminate bombing' of Gaza
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that Israel was losing international support because of its “indiscriminate bombing" of Gaza, speaking out in unusually strong language as the United Nations neared a vote on demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.“Israel's security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting them,” Biden said to donors during a fundraiser Tuesday.“They’re starting to lose that support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place,” Biden said.The president said he thought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understood, but he wasn't so sure about the Israeli war cabinet. Israeli forces were carrying out...
December 13, 2023

Biden says Israel losing support over 'indiscriminate bombing' of Gaza

An injured Palestinian child is rushed to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. (file). — courtesy WHO
‘Humanitarian disaster zone’: Gaza hospital capacity decimated – WHO
GAZA — The last barely functioning hospital in northern Gaza is a “humanitarian disaster zone”, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, highlighting the disastrous consequences of ongoing Israeli bombardment for critically ill and injured civilians across the enclave.Briefing reporters from Gaza, Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, described corridors overflowing with trauma patients at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where doctors treat people on the floor and fuel, oxygen, food and water are scarce.In just 66 days of fighting, the Strip has been transformed from a “reasonably functioning health system” producing health indicators “on par with neighboring countries” to a situation where more than two thirds of...
December 12, 2023

‘Humanitarian disaster zone’: Gaza hospital capacity decimated – WHO

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